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However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

I don't see how the poster implies that Africa is a country. Are you still half-asleep Sonnabend?

"They are going to choose a country...Niger, Zimbabwae etc..."

I do think that a teacher should at least know how to spell things correctly and use correct punctuation...it should be "Zimbabwe, etc....."

"Because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex; it will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principals and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours." -Reagan

greenbriar does specifically mention that they will be picking a country from Africa to do the report on, not Africa itself.

“Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.”
G. K. Chesterton

I had to make a diorama of an african village once, in elementary school. It was a fun project, I got to use clay and other fun things to make little huts. My country was Zaire, which has since changed names to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.